June 20, 1913] 



SCIENCE 



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The committee considered the question of 

 the assignment of unit values to the new defi- 

 nition of the admission requirement in Eng- 

 lish and voted that, as a tentative arrange- 

 ment, equal values be given to (1) the gram- 

 mar and composition, and (2) the- reading. 



Among the questions assigned to a sub-com- 

 mittee for consideration and report at the next 

 meeting are the following: the literal inter- 

 pretation of the definition of the unit; the 

 greater unit value of the work of the latter 

 years of the secondary school curriculum as 

 compared with the work of the earlier years; 

 the effect on the unit value of work in any 

 subject when it is accompanied or preceded 

 by work in allied subjects; the assignment of 

 unit values to the definitions of the admission 

 requirements in the subjects, algebra, English 

 and history; and the accrediting of candidates 

 for admission to college from secondary schools 

 which give instruction in only one foreign 

 language. 



Ofiicers were elected for the year as follows: 

 President, Headmaster Wilson Farrand, New- 

 ark Academy; Vice-president, President A. 

 Ross Hill, University of Missouri; Secretary- 

 treasurer, Dean Frederick C. Ferry, Williams 

 College. 



The sub-committee which had served for the 

 past two years was continued for investigation 

 and report at the next meeting. This com- 

 mittee includes Headmaster Wilson Farrand, 

 Dean Frederick C. Ferry, President Henry S. 

 Pritchett and Principal Frederick L. Bliss. 



The next conference was appointed for Feb- 

 ruary, 1914, or for such earlier time as the 

 sub-committee might select. 



Frederick C. Ferry, 



Secretary 



TEE DANA CENTENARY 



In commemoration of the great geologic 

 work of James Dwight Dana, Tale Univer- 

 sity proposes to hold a centenary celebration 

 next November, to consist of a series of lec- 

 tures culminating in a Dana Memorial volume 

 on " Problems of American Geology." The 

 lectures will be given on the Silliman Founda- 



tion, the dates to be announced after the open- 

 ing of the next collegiate year. The lecturers 

 and their respective subjects are as follows: 



PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN GEOLOGY 



Introduction 



"The Geology of James Dwight Dana," Pro- 

 fessor William North Eiee, Wesleyan Uni- 

 versity. 



I. Proilems of the Canadian Shield 



' ' The Archeozoic and its Problems, ' ' Professor 

 Frank Dawson Adams, McGill University. 



' ' The Proterozoic and its Problems, ' ' Professor 

 Arthur Philemon Coleman, University of 

 Toronto. 



II. Prohlems of the Cordilleras 



' ' The Cambrian and its Problems, ' ' Dr. Charles 

 Doolittle Waleott, Smithsonian Institution. 



• ' The Igneous Geology and its Problems, ' ' Pro- 

 fessor Waldemar Lindgren, Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology. 



' • The Tertiary Structural Evolution and its 

 Problems, ' ' Dr. Frederick Leslie Ransome, 

 United States Geological Survey. 



■ ' The Tertiary Sedimentary Record and its 

 Problems," Dr. William Diller Matthew, 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 Princeton University has conferred the 

 degree of doctor of science on Dr. Simon 

 Flexner, scientific director of the Rockefeller 

 Institute for Medical Research and on Dr. 

 David L. Edsall, Jackson professor of clinical 

 medicine in the Harvard Medical School. 

 The degree of master of arts has been con- 

 ferred on Mr. William Barnum, editor of the 

 publications of the Carnegie Institution. 



The Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 

 phia, has conferred the degree of LL.D. on 

 Dr. Abraham Jacobi, emeritus professor of 

 diseases of children. College of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Columbia University, and on 

 Dr. Francis P. Venable, president of the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina. 



Dr. E. a. Schafer, professor of physiology 

 in the University of Edinburgh, has received 

 the honor of knighthood. The same honor has 

 been conferred upon Professor J. H. Biles, pro- 

 fessor of naval architecture in the University 

 of Glasgow. 



